Congress Closer To Approving SRF Boost In 2010

To get to 500 million tons by 2016, natural gas residential, commercial and small industrial users would have to reduce consumption by about a 1.8-1.9 percent a year, according to Wilkinson. He thinks that reduction is doable but not a walk in the park because residential consumers of natural gas have been decreasing consumption for 40 years, “and you can’t reduce consumption 2 percent a year forever.”